How Criminals, Terrorists, and the Syrian Conflict Fuel Underground Ma
This book examines the transnational expansion of the illicit economy in Turkey and the unintended consequences of corruption scandals at the highest levels of the Turkish government that have resulted in the purging of important law enforcement and intelligence entities formerly responsible for countering terrorism and organized crime threats.
How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting
In contrast to the anxiety surrounding our voting system, with stories about voter suppression and manipulation, there are actually quite a few positive initiatives toward voting rights reform. Professor Joshua A. Douglas, an expert on our electoral system, examines these encouraging developments in this inspiring book about how regular Americans ......
This important new book explores the contemporary refugee crisis and the untold realities and experiences of refugees themselves. A team of top scholars offer a critical and necessary diagnosis of the challenges, complexities, and contradictions impacting our philosophical approaches to the contemporary figure of the refugee.
This book explains the foreign policy of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. It argues that Renzi's domestic focus and outsider status are critical in allowing us to make sense of Renzi's policies toward the European Union as well as instability in Libya and the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
International Relations and Politics through Star Trek and Star Wars
This book examines politics in terms of space fiction, international relations and theory, using the Star Wars and Star Trek television and movie franchises to illustrate these dimensions.
This book looks at critical regional topics, such as the conflicts in Moldova, Crimea, Georgia, and South Ossetia and compares the countries' energy politics.
Comparative Judicial Politics provides insights into and raises critical questions about how courts at all levels and in divergent settings around the world intersect with politics and charts the implications of what can occur when law, courts, and politics meet.
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or political persuasion.
This book analyzes the complexities of energy security by studying how the United States and China approached their own supply security over a twenty-year period. Exploring these two countries and understanding how their respective grand strategies influence their approaches to energy security allows a deeper understanding of the topic.